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New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie

It looks like Michael Bay is in charge.

deadline.com:

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon have brought Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form on to produce Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the live-action film that reboots the film series launched by New Line in 1990. Bay, Fuller and Form will produce with Galen Walker and Scott Mednick.

The producers will begin meetings with writers in the next few weeks. The deal puts Bay in the center of two Paramount franchises, as he started production May 17 on Transformers 3, and is zeroing in on Rosie Huntington-Whitely to replace Megan Fox as love interest for Shia LaBeouf. TNMT, a co-production between Paramount and Nickelodeon, is an outgrowth of the $60 million acquisition made by Nick last October for global rights to the entire Turtles franchise. Right around the same time, Paramount made a first look deal with the Platinum Dunes partners, who will generate genre projects but also want to expand their scope. While they've already set up several projects including a Rob Cohen-remake of Fright Night, the Turtles film puts them into new territory.

I wish I could post what I just said outloud when I read it, but it is not appropriate for the forum. All I can say is, ANY hope that I had for the new Ninja Turtles movie being any good just smashed it's way right out the window.

The box office numbers say otherwise. I think the Transformers movies are good popcorn flicks, but nothing special. Bay is pretty polarizing among the internet community, though. There are definitely some Transformers fans that despise him.

The box office numbers say otherwise. I think the Transformers movies are good popcorn flicks, but nothing special. Bay is pretty polarizing among the internet community, though. There are definitely some Transformers fans that despise him.

I wish I could post what I just said outloud when I read it, but it is not appropriate for the forum. All I can say is, ANY hope that I had for the new Ninja Turtles movie being any good just smashed it's way right out the window.

I probably would have laughed my ass off at the sheer number of asterisks if you had posted what you said.

I am by NO means a film prude, but I don't see how anyone can find ANY redeeming value in the second Transformers movie. The first was okay, but even it was far from being anything special.

I sort of agree. I think the second one moved away from characters, and tried to cram it full of robots. Too overwhelming. I can see flaws in his movies, but overall I do like his stuff. I love some TMNT, but ninja's aren't that big on explosions.

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Ok I actually like the Transformers movies on the whole. The key words there being "on the whole" they are overrun with problems and material that should have been left on the cutting room floor.

That said my reaction to this news was "Oh dear God no!" Bay is all about guns and explosions how is that right for Ninja Turtles? John Woo would be more appropriate!

Sure in the original comics the turtles cursed and were more violent so if the new movie was darker I'd be okay but I really don't want to see the toilet humor that plagued the Transformers movies (or movies in general these days to be honest0 IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!!!

the only scene I can imagine Bay right for would be the Technodrome emerging from underground and blasting the city apart.

"How I loathe heroes! Always getting in the way and acting so... so... heroic!"

The box office numbers say otherwise. I think the Transformers movies are good popcorn flicks, but nothing special. Bay is pretty polarizing among the internet community, though. There are definitely some Transformers fans that despise him.

I'll give this new TMNT movie a chance.

It isn't just amongst Transformers fans. His movies are full of refrigerator logic, the problem is I think most people either A) don't get up to go the fridge or B) Never turn their brain on to begin with or C) don't care because fill-in-the-blank.

I agree we shouldn't expect Shakespeare (which there is some irony in that statement) but I don't want to settle for someone who every movie I watch I can't even think about thinking or I want to turn it off.

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But how many of Michael Bay's films have failed? Some may not like them, but they have been succesful from a financial point of view, and that is certainly ALL Paramount or any other studio cares about.

Here I was kinda happy when I heard that Peter Laird had sold the TMNT license since that means that Splinter would probably still be alive. Now I can expect for Splinter to either speak in a racist Asian accent or relieve himself on Casey Jones. TMNT is now dead to me. At least I still have MOTU & Thundercats(G.I. Joe is on the fence).

Originally Posted by Firefly

Bay and his company are producing it. It is too early to tell just how heavily involved he will be. Obviously, if he gets named as the director too, it will be quite a bit.

He didn't direct any of the Platinum Dunes horror movies and I still hated all of them(although Ryan Reynolds almost saved Amityville Horror).

Originally Posted by King Tycho

But how many of Michael Bay's films have failed? Some may not like them, but they have been succesful from a financial point of view, and that is certainly ALL Paramount or any other studio cares about.

I don't know about their monetary success but I loved the first Bad Boys & The Rock and liked Armageddon. Everything after that have been different shades of crud imho. Bay seems to be in competiton with M. Night in seeing who can get worse as a movie director. Bay is definitely in the lead.

Last edited by Mr. Shokoti; May 28, 2010 at 06:15am.
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Well it's better than nothing. I think Bay is THE man for a TMNT: action, explosions, large budgets, good concepts and hot girls on screen.

I just hope he stays true to the original comics instead of cheesy stories about time-traveling turtles looking more like frog going to japan to do nothing really imporant that will not change events in the future... wow, I think i really hated TMNT III

I can just imagine it now. Take the film Transformers, replace the robots with mutant turtles, replace Sam Witwicky with April O'Niel, replace Megan Fox with Casey Jones, give the Shredder a transformation sequence, have Raphael urinate on foot soldiers from the top of a building and speak with a ghetto accent.

Instahit, not sure why you guys are worried about this.

One Gum Drop to rule them all, One Gum Drop to find them,
One Gum Drop to bring them all and in the sweetness bind them
In the Land of Candy where the Gingerbreads lie.
-Tag line for the Candy Land Movie Adaptation